Gair Dunlop - 4 March 2009
Lecturer in Media Arts and Imaging, University of Dundee

Recent and current research approaches to the legacy of modernism are focusing on the linkage between two aspects of modernism in its entropic phase. On the light side- curtain wall office blocks, clean gleaning cubes, and a promise of a fresh new life. On the darker side: bunkers, laboratories, and airfields where simulations of apocalypse have been and continue to be generated. These structures are intimately inter-related- not only as symptoms of a technocratic society but also as products of the same architects, engineers, and corporations. This discussion will draw on my own projects and other projects of artistic experimentation which explore this dual legacy.